Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-02
DAILY HERALD.
,sRrH D. LYNCH = co.. r.or.1rroaa.

~ H1Von 10 commercial euo Aeeel
1n4 an orders viii be promptly niaeo ~
Hsmittsnces % should be made BY draft.
oSoek. Poetoiice order or postal note. Ine
jn11er should be sent for all sums less snAn
S oSss s & publicat,on. IS North Spring
s1reek. Los Angeles. Telephone No. lb6.
meuu mental Mendacity.
On the flfth page Of this issue of
the HERALD will be found . letter
editorial corespondence-to the New
York Commercial Advertiser. II Il
signed with the initials sc. G. f."
whoever these three letters stand for,
that personality should be we'll
known. He ID : distinguished man.
In his line he stands at the head Of
tho class. His line is lying. Al the
d3own says: ''There never have been
butthree immortelliars: Baron Mum
Shaussnswas one, -" and "G. G. E."
= the other two. The letter is given
satire on the page opposite this, as it
would be = crying sin to mar handi-
work 20 artistic, SO completely beyond
the record Of any previous mendacity.
Yesterday morning we published a,
Ill to the fair proportions of these
prevarications. That was in the ex-
eeptional, unique and unprecedented
record Of the growth, prosperity, re-
sources and products of this county.
Read, al ye who know us and our
country, and laugh with most unre-
strained aud immoderate mirth at
fhe falsifcations of 'G. G. E."
Read it's, 600 inhabitants, "most
Of them have been here about three
weeks or So" That is q good lie, for
Z starter. "G. G.. E." tells some
that are more remarkable later on.
"What are they all doing? No.
thing in the way Of business, for the
most. part; because there is nothing
70 do. Very little country, except
adobe desert. These are weil-im-
agin ed fictions for . section which
has 1900 900 acres of the best soil
the sun shines unequal to at least
so, OOO, 600 acres in the best part of
the State where &c. G. E." the An
snias Of his time, lives. The ''adobe
deserts" have q peculiar flavor of
truthfu1ness about them, as the adobe
IL The richest land in the world, its
only objection being that it is little
hard to work. There is very little of
Is hereabouts.
Then that nice fiction Of $500 an
aers for agricultural landl" There
never was such sale made in the
county. The writer knows of 500
acres Of agricultural land, such land
cannot be found in the choicest parts
q the Empire State. It has plenty
q water ON it. It is % miles from
this efice and is for sale tor 800 an
acre.
Everybody is anxious to sell! The
buyers are consumptives from the
esytl,' There is really spice of
truth in this. II In pot the simple
truth. That IL something &c. G. f."
seems incapable Of uttering; he prob
ably never did such q thing in his
dfe.
Unfortunately for many Of those
who were here earlier than "three
weeks" ago, they we're anxious to
cell, and the "consumptives" bought.
The sellers are sufficiently triste in
the transaction, and the buyers are
sue and all most jubilant. There is
naturally much property fer sale here
in new country. Our ranches have
embraced thousands Of acres each.
It is better these should be broken up
into small holdings. Within the city,
- &c. @. E." says, there are lots
enough to accommodate 100, 900 peo-
ple, and tho vacant lots are for sale.
Where are they not? How long will
il be before there are 10000 people
here to fill up all these lots? What
evermay be the answers othese .ques-
tions, one thing is certain-"G. G..
f." could not, even TO secure his
great and peculiar talents to Los An
geles, buy any of those lots from the
sseonsumptives'' who already have
eobbled them up, unless he pays a
pretty stiff price for them. No one is
% anxious to sell as to make any
eoncessions.
The comparison between this Sec
tion and Minnesota is good-very
asod- such = thorouahly intelligent
vay Of putting it! Italy has been the
fashion in climate for consumptives
5oe something like 5000 years, and it
has not gone out yet. The parallel
between us and Charleston, where
the natives can hardly exist during
tho greater pat OF the season will be
snjoyed by those who know.
In this connection &C. G. E."
nakes an approximation to telling
tzhe tzuth. He gets close to it for a
ncment. He says his "opinion may
be worth nothing" Had he stated
Il IN the indicative mood, and not
puf It alphabetically. the statement
would have been accepted as the alb
eolute truth. &c. G. E.'s" opinion
= not worth anything on this point; ;